Dealing with Copyright Issues in your Research (Social Sciences)
Duration 0.5 days
Team Researcher Academy

This course is delivered by the Graduate School in partnership with the Library Research Support Team

Researcher Academy courses are very popular and the majority are run in both semesters to give you the opportunity to attend at a time of the year that suits you. Semester 1 courses will be available for booking from the second week of October and Semester 2 courses from the second week of February.

Important course booking guidelines

Target Audience

Early stage postgraduate research students

Understanding and properly handling issues around copyright is a legal obligation, and also goes to the heart of academic research ethics. In the contemporary research context the proliferation of digital ways of handling information makes an understanding of these issues increasingly important. We recommend all postgraduate students who are starting to work towards a Masters (by research) dissertation or doctoral thesis in the social sciences to attend this course, to develop an understanding of the implications of copyright at each stage of the research process.

This course assumes no previous knowledge of copyright.

Process

90 minute small group, participatory session.

Description

This course will address important copyright questions relevant to researchers, including:

·        What are the acceptable limits on quoting someone for me to criticise their ideas?

·        Does it make any difference that my source is unpublished?

·        When does copyright protection run out?

·        Can I use this diagram from the web in my thesis?

·        Can I control how others copy parts of my thesis after its submitted?

This course will teach you to utilise all sorts of sources, published and unpublished, printed and online, in ways that safeguard your research from accusations of ethical or legal infringement.

The course will address your rights in relation to your own original work. We will explore options open to you to control copying of your thesis/dissertation. We will also explain the importance of copyright compliance in relation to the University’s e-thesis deposition regulations.

Related Course

If you would like to explore copyright issues relevant to your own research in more depth you may want to attend Identifying & Managing Copyright Issues in your Research.

Aims

To develop your understanding of the implications of copyright for the planning, conducting and presenting of original research.

To safeguard the academic and legal integrity of research activity

Objectives

By the end of the course you will:

·        be able to appropriately utilise a variety of sources in your academic work

·        understand your rights in relation to your own research in order to protect your original work


Latecomer policy
Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment
When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk. This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

       It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.

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